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Memory Like a Brain
I've been building an AI agent for the past few months, and somewhere along the way I realized I was accidentally recreating a brain.
Mid-Turn: What Happens When You Interrupt an Agent
Most agent systems treat turns as atomic. Except that's not how anyone actually uses these things.
One Main Thread
The trick to building an agent that keeps up with you turned out to be counterintuitive: give the main agent fewer tools, not more.
Always-On Agents
Most AI assistants are glorified chatbots. I've been living with something different — an agent that actually runs in the background. One that has a heartbeat.
The Filesystem as a Tool
Most of the specialized tools I was building didn't need to exist. What if I just gave the agent a filesystem?
Building an AI Agent from Scratch
I work at Obvious.ai and spend my days thinking about agent architecture. And yet, until last week, I had never actually built an agent from scratch myself.
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